Facebook to buy Microsoft's advertising network, report affirms

Confirming December's rumors of a Facebook-Microsoft advertising deal, a report by Ad Age indicates Facebook may buy Microsoft's Atlas ad network as soon as next week. An impending deal would not be surprising; after all, Facebook and Microsoft have been cozy...

Facebook's search is a laughing stock: it makes Bing look like a self-aware AI. The only pro-consumer development that might come from this sale - and its a slim hope at best - is that Microsoft will stop trying to beat Google in search and ads and start focusing on making good software again. Right now their doing everything <I>but</I> that.